Best book you've read recently

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Sorry...lame I know!

I'm trying to get back into reading in the evenings after I get the little ones to bed...

Something I can lost in...i don't mind a creepy tale but nothing too scary !!

House of Silk is by Anthony Horowitz- I’ve read most of his adult work recently and enjoyed them all.

I Found You - Lisa Jewell. Also Where the Crawdads Sing

Small pleasures by Clare Chambers

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Whalebone Theatre by Jo quinn

Agree

Favourites I have read recently are Still Life by Sarah Winman and House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Kline.
Favourites in last few years have been A Gentleman in Moscow, Station 11, Once Upon a River.

I haven't had a great yield of fiction I've loved this year so I'm going to recommend Taylor Jenkins Read books in general. Super easy going page turners that should get you back in the spirit. I would start with Daisy Jones and The Six

Agree @Shortkiwi Small Pleasures was excellent. I subsequently started on the rest of Clare Chambers books and ver much enjoyed them all

I also read recently and loved The Manningtree Witches by AK Blackmore

I've just finished How to kidnap the rich, Rahul Rainer which I really enjoyed and I'm currently reading The bullet that missed, Richard Osman which I'm loving and is one of those books I'll be sad to finish.

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If you like non-fiction; The Happiest Man in Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku is good. The man was a truly beautiful soul.

My kids constantly went on about the title whilst I was reading it!

I actually really enjoyed it, not the best book I've ever read, but a good'un.

I have also recently read American Dirt - if you want something that is gripping from the first paragraph, that's the book for you! I know it's a bit 'problematic' as it's written by an American white woman, and that did occur to me a lot as I was reading it, but I still liked it and really liked the main characters which definitely isn't always the case, even with books I enjoy.

I've just read Daisy Jones and the Six which I really enjoyed. Have also read Again, Rachel by Marian Keyes which was the follow up to Rachel's Holiday. Finished Matthew Perry's book Friends , Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing in a day - how he is still alive I don't know! Have just started How To Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie and it's looking good.

I also gave up on Daisy Jones. I just got fed up of the way it was written. Thank goodness for the library or I'd have wasted so much money this year!

I loved How to Kill Your Family!

Currently trying to get into The Hive by Gill Hornby. I’m only a few chapters in but it hasn’t yet gripped me into that “I can’t wait to get home to read some more” zone which I look for in a book.

This is the one I came here to recommend. Love Jonathan Coe.

All You Ever Wanted by Susan Elliot Wright. Recommended if you like Lisa Jewel.

Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver. Best book I’ve read in a while.

My book club just read Lessons in Chemistry -everyone really enjoyed it!

Oh-and A man called Ove was such a nice read

Oh William by Elizabeth Strout, v good.

Mr Wilder and Me by Jonathan Coe is v good. (I knew nothing about Billy Wilder or his films, but this didn't matter).

I don't think it has been mentioned, I loved loved loved Beartown by Fredrik Backman (Man Called Ove). It's part of a trilogy and I am saving the next 2 for when I have a bit more time to savour them.

Also loved Lessons in Chemistry.

Now listening to Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson - really enjoying it so far.

How to Kill Your Family Bella Mackie
The Stopped Heart - Julie Myerson
The Whalebone Theatre Joanna Quinn

I didn't like the Manningtree Witches, found it boring and unengaging. I enjoyed Small Pleasures but the ending is painful.

Still Life by Sarah Winman is one of the best books I've read in a long, long time. I utterly adored it! Though I listened on audible rather than reading, which I thoroughly recommend. It's read by the author and really works in a way many audible books don't.

By far the standout for me recently was The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton. Couldn’t put it down. It does contain child neglect/abuse and one unpleasant scene of animal abuse.